Ministry
The Last Sucker
Review by Mike Korn
The end of days is almost upon us. Soon our glorious commander in chief George W. Bush will be riding off into the sunset. But he won't be alone. Following right behind him will be his biggest tormentors, the industrial thrash machine known as Ministry. Ministry and the Bush family have been linked in a mutual web of contempt since the days of the first President Bush. Al Jourgenson, the fevered mind behind Ministry, believes his band is at its absolute peak when a Bush is in office. So when Dubya takes his leave in 2008, so will Ministry.
Ministry goes down swinging all the way. This is another blast of raw, machine-like metal filled with humorous bile and bilious humor. I would say it lacks the sheer overwhelming fury of the last Ministry effort Rio Grande Blood, but to make up for that, the songwriting is more varied and hails back to older works like The Mind is A Terrible Thing to Taste and the legendary Psalm 69. If this is indeed the last true Ministry album, they are going out on a pretty high note...hurling flaming barbs at the retreating backside of George W. Bush every second of the way.
This review is available in book format (hardcover and paperback) in Music Street Journal: 2007 Volume 5 at lulu.com/strangesound.
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